To mark the anniversary of 15 years of China's public connection to the Internet, 'China 2.0' looks at the rise of China as a digital superpower.

Home to four hundred million online and seven hundred and fifty million mobile consumers, China is giving birth to innovative start-ups and established multi-billion dollar enterprises in social networking, games, video, music and e-commerce.

Companies thriving in China will increasingly shape the global digital economy, either by their sheer scale at home or through investments and mergers and acquistions in the United States and other developed economies.

How do Chinese Internet users and companies differ from their U.S. peers? How are these companies impacting China? Are innovative business models emerging in China exportable? How are successful digital entrepreneurs shaping the future of China? What are the implications for Silicon Valley?

Join this invitation-only forum to meet with industry leaders from China and overseas to assess the likely future shape and implications of China's rise for consumers, industry players, investors, researchers and policy makers.

Audience 

Media & tech executives, entrepreneurs, academics, venture capitalists/private equity investors, policymakers, journalists.

Format 

A distinctive point of China 2.0 is that in addition to standard speaker contributions, presentations and roundtable discussions on key issues and implications,  we will be commissioning a series of videos to be presented at the event and online post-event. These include 'vox pop' interviews with Chinese Internet users in a range of cities--coastal developed cities of Beijing and Shanghai but also inland cities of Changsha, Chengdu, Nanning, Wuhan and Xian--as well as interviews recorded in China with leading Internet executives.